Never Waste A Good Crisis
The title of this post is a bit of advice I first heard many years ago, while working on an…
Ten Ways to Kill An Enterprise Architecture Practice
Have you seen practices that you know could kill an Enterprise Architecture practice? I have. A recent LinkedIn thread asked…
A Modern Update to The Blind Men and The Elephant
My humble apologies to John Godfrey Saxe, whose poem I have modified to add a seventh man, and to make…
Cool Idea – replacing the escalator
Ran across this on the blog of Andy Blumenthal… very cool idea.
On vacation
…at a really great place. I’m at Rancho La Puerta, a “destination spa” in Tecate Mexico (just south of the…
Microsoft annual Day of Caring becomes part of National Day of Service
Now that the president and the United Way have teamed up to proclaim that 9/11 shall be honored, each year,…
On becoming and being a Mensch
I mentioned to a Christian friend of mine, yesterday, that I consider him to be a “mensch.” He was unaware…
Very Funny – Trailer for Office 2010 – The Movie
Even non-geeks will get a huge kick out of this, and I’m betting that most of the folks who follow…
ouch
I started two good blog posts today. Both will wait for another day, as I take this space to say…
Architecture in a hot air balloon
There is a joke that I sometimes like to refer to, more as an allegorical story than anything else. This…